Author : Anonymous
Publisher : Rarebooksclub.com
ISBN 13 : 9781230152561
Total Pages : 180 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (525 download)
Book Synopsis Anticipation on Politics, Commerce and Finance, During the Present Crisis; Containing Twenty-Two Letters from Old Politicians in the Shades to Young P by : Anonymous
Download or read book Anticipation on Politics, Commerce and Finance, During the Present Crisis; Containing Twenty-Two Letters from Old Politicians in the Shades to Young P written by Anonymous and published by Rarebooksclub.com. This book was released on 2013-09 with total page 180 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can usually download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1808 edition. Excerpt: ... in general, are the parish officers, to whose care this important afiair is committed. Though this is an institution almost on the purely democratic principle of equal representation, it is a very bad specimen of that mode of government. The shameful lawsuits between the parishes, about paupers: the disgraceful and barbarous treatment of women, who have been betrayed and abandoned, admit of no exevse. They axe not productive even of gain or economy. Amongst some tribes of savage Indians, the aged and helpless are put to death, that they may not remain a burthen on those who are able and in health, and it is equally true, that in England, the young innocents, who have not parents to protect them, are considered as a burthen; and, if they are not absolutely seut out of the world, the means necessary to preserve them in it are very inadequate to the purpose. If cri minality could be engraved on a graduated scale, their death ought in general to be written down at some intermediate point between accidental homicide and wilful murder. The persecution of this unfortunate race may be said to commence before they are born; and though the strength of a nation depends much en its population, less care is taken te encourage it, than to produce mushrooms, or to preserve bares and partridges. (To heunthuci.) THE ROMAN CATHOLIC QUESTION. We had sent our article on the Roman Catholic question to press, last week, before we received the following letter, otherwise we should have incorporated its contents with that article. To The EDITOR Of ANTICIPATION. Sir, When you treated the business of the Roman Catholics, though I like much your elucidation about the impossihility of equality in religion, shewing that toleration, is all that ought to be asked or..
